HOUSTON — Colliers International has negotiated a 28,219 SF industrial lease within Northway Park II in Houston on behalf of Campbell Fittings Inc., a manufacturer of fittings and sleeves for industrial hoses. Walter Menuet and Judd Harrison of Colliers International represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Kelly Landwermeyer of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, CenterPoint Houston UCET LLC.
PASADENA, TEXAS — NAI Partners has secured a 22,000-square-foot industrial lease at 2915 Pasadena Boulevard in the southeastern Houston metro of Pasadena. The property, which is situated on 1.5 acres, was built on a speculative basis. Clay Pritchett of NAI Partners represented the landlord, Houston Industrial Development One LP, in the lease negotiations. Sarah Hoffman, also of NAI Partners, represented the tenant, machinery manufacturer Stacey Supply Corp.
COLLIERVILLE, TENN. — Canadian-based label company CCL Label and Turkish specialty label producer Korsini SAF have opened a $25 million in-mold label facility in Collierville, roughly 30 miles southeast of Memphis. The 85,000-square-foot building is located at the Interstate 269/State Road 385/US 72 crossroads, adjacent to CCL Label’s existing 111,000-square-foot production plant. The new facility will produce in-mold labels for the injection molded containers market and will create 130 new jobs. In addition, the facility has the potential for a 36,000-square-foot future expansion.
PASADENA, TEXAS — Duke Realty Corp. has acquired Bayport Distribution Center II, a two-building, 772,500-square-foot industrial property located near Port Houston in Pasadena. The Class A property was built in 2008 and consists of one 600,000-square-foot building and one 172,500-square-foot building that are fully leased to three tenants. The property features clear heights ranging from 24 to 30 feet and a total of 157 dock-high doors and eight drive-in ramps. Trent Agnew, Rusty Hamlyn and Dane Petersen of HFF represented the seller, a partnership between Mountain West Industrial Properties and an undisclosed institutional investor, in the sale.
MENOMONEE FALLS, WIS. — EnSync Inc. has signed a 42,600-square-foot industrial lease in Menomonee Falls, 20 miles northwest of Milwaukee. The energy company will occupy the space at 13901 Main St. Samuel D. Dickman, Samuel M. Dickman Jr., Nick Keys and Cale Berg of the Dickman Co. Inc./CORFAC International brokered the transaction. 13901 Leasing Co. LLP is the property landlord.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — HFF has arranged the sale of Riverbend West Distribution Center, a 301,500-square-foot, Class A industrial facility in Fort Worth. Completed in 2016, the cross-dock facility features 32-foot clear heights, LED warehouse lighting, 76 overhead dock doors and four drive-in doors. Hunt Southwest Real Estate Development sold the property, which was 86 percent leased to Ecolab and PODS at the time of sale, to Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust for an undisclosed price. Adam Herrin and Stephen Bailey of HFF led the investment advisory team.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA. — CyrusOne, a Dallas-based global data center REIT, has unveiled plans to expand into the Atlanta-area market with a 44-acre campus in Douglasville. The $206 million project will be located near the home of Google’s 2 million-square-foot server farm, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. At full build-out, the project will include three data centers totaling 440,000 square feet, and 50 megawatts of critical power. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2018, with completion of the first building slated for the summer of 2018. CyrusOne’s Atlanta centers will have access to multiple cloud providers and will be linked to the CyrusOne National Internet Exchange, which delivers interconnection between other CyrusOne locations across the country. The company currently operates 44 data center facilities across the United States, Europe and Asia.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — McCraney Property Co. has acquired a 54-acre land parcel in Charlotte for the development of a 610,700-square-foot speculative industrial project. Dubbed Airport South Business Park, the property will be located near the intersection of Billy Graham Parkway and West Boulevard, less than one mile from Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Upon completion, the development will include five Class A industrial buildings. Warren Snowdon and David Hanna of Foundry Commercial arranged the land acquisition on behalf of McCraney Property Co. The project is part of the developer’s more than 2 million-square-foot industrial pipeline currently under development or planned throughout the Southeast.
With a statewide unemployment rate of 2.7 percent, New Hampshire has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, and is well below the national unemployment rate of 4.4 percent. The New Hampshire labor market has continued to tighten, with unemployment having dropped 0.2 percentage points since third quarter of last year. Employment gains have not been seen in two traditionally industrial sectors: trade, transportation & utilities or manufacturing. Employment in these sectors has remained relatively flat year-over-year, at -0.4 percent and 0.6 percent growth respectively. Year-to-date industrial absorption was pushed up to 623,485 square feet by continued positive absorption in the third quarter. The three largest submarkets — Nashua, Manchester, and Portsmouth —made up the majority of that absorption, while two of the smaller submarkets — Concord and Bedford — are the only ones experiencing negative year-to-date absorption. The largest new lease of the fourth quarter of 2017 was Bensonwood Woodworking’s lease of more than 100,000 square feet of space at 25 Production Avenue in Keene. The space will be used mainly for manufacturing purposes. On the capital markets front, the largest transaction of the quarter was the purchase of 55 and 85 Mechanic Street, a 119,000-square-foot multi-tenant …
LEBANON COUNTY, PA. — First Industrial Realty Trust is developing First Logistics Center @ I-78/81 in Lebanon County in Central Pennsylvania. The company has commenced site work and development for a 738,720-square-foot distribution center. Slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2018, the distribution center will feature 40-foot clear heights, 185-foot truck courts, 135 dock-high door positions, four drive-in doors, 246 trailer stalls, 289 auto stalls, ESFR sprinklers and LED lighting. The total investment for the distribution center is estimated at $49 million. The site plan for the industrial park includes 12 acres of land on which the company is readying a pad for the future construction of a 250,000-square-foot facility. The project team includes Blue Rock Construction as general contractor and Joseph V. Belluccia as architect. Patrick Lafferty, Michael Hess, Bart Anderson and Fred Ragsdale II of CBRE have been retained to lease the project.
